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Colloquium Schedule

Astronomy department colloquia are held in the department classroom, VVO 110. Unless otherwise noted, talks are on Wednesdays, starting at 4:15 p.m. with tea and cookies in the department library starting at 4:00 p.m.

Spring 2012

March 7 "Planet Hunters: Searching for Exoplanets with 340,000 Eyes" Megan Schwamb (Yale University)
Tuesday, March 27* Sturm Lecture: "Making the Invisible Sun Visible" Alan Title (Lockheed Martin)
March 28 "Large Scale Consequence of Local Events" Alan Title (Lockheed Martin)
April 4 "TBD" Ruth Murray-Clay (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
April 11 "Spin-Orbit Interactions for Exoplanetary Systems" Josh Winn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
April 25 "From statistics to individual characterization of exoplanets" Jean-Michel Désert (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
May 9 "TBD" Matthew Holman (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

*Note that the Sturm Lecture will take place on a Tuesday evening